[Coco] Re: Police Quest 1 and King's Quest 4 for the coco!

[Charlie]

This is great. If you can get KQ4 on 360K disks, I will be playing it!
Thanks again for all these sierra games, I LOVED playing KQ2 on my COCO.

-Charlie

"Guillaume Major" <gmajor at videotron.ca> wrote in 
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> Now you can play these games on your coco 3!
>
> I finally found the bug in Police Quest 1 that was corrupting the memory 
> of the AGI interpreter. It allowed me to finish its adaptation for the 
> coco and is now fully playable.
>
> Also, I successfully converted King's Quest 4 (AGI version) from version 3 
> to version 2 to use with the coco interpreter. Version 3 resources are 
> compressed and the coco interpreter does not support compression. I had to 
> decompress all resources from KQ4 so now the VOL files are bigger than the 
> original game. I had to put the files on 720K disks. I will look forward 
> for a way to split the VOL files and make the game available on 360K 
> disks.
>
> There are some minor glitches with object priorities due to the fact that 
> this game was designed to run on a more recent version of the AGI 
> interpreter and make use of commands not available on the coco 
> interpreter. But these glitches doesn't affect playability.
>
> You can download them at: http://goyim.dyndns.org:8080/coco
>
> Please let me know if you find any bug in these games or other sierra 
> games that I have modified.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Guillaume
>
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